EAS Observe

EAS service - costs apply. EAS Observe is an Expo Application Services product. The free EAS plan allows up to 10,000 monthly active users, with a limited set of features; higher usage requires a paid subscription. For details, see https://expo.dev/pricing#plan-features.

EAS Observe tracks startup, navigation, and custom-event performance from production Expo apps. It needs a development or production build — the native library is not in Expo Go.

Source of truth: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/ — always consult the canonical docs when API details matter, especially get-started, configuration, integrations, and the metrics reference. EAS Observe is evolving; this skill's references are written to stay accurate but may lag the docs.

Which reference to read

The four reference files in ./references/ cover what people typically need this skill for:

• Adding EAS Observe to a project → ./references/setup.md. Install, wrap the root layout (AppMetricsRoot on SDK 55, ObserveRoot on SDK 56+), mark the app interactive (global markInteractive() on SDK 55, the useObserve() hook or <ObserveInteractiveMarker /> on SDK 56+), optional per-route navigation metrics through the Expo Router / React Navigation integrations, user-defined events via Observe.logEvent (SDK 56+), error reporting, and runtime configuration (sampling, dispatch, environments, custom endpoint).
• Querying metrics from the terminal → ./references/queries.md. The six eas observe:* commands — metrics-summary, metrics, routes, events, session, versions — with flags, metric aliases, table layouts, JSON shapes, and common workflows.
• Reading a dashboard or CLI output → ./references/metrics.md. Target thresholds per metric, what the automatic TTI params mean (frameRate.*, device.*, network.*), and diagnostic patterns for telling slow-but-smooth startup apart from main-thread contention, hard blocks, or throttled devices.
• Shipping an Observe integration in a library → ./references/third-party.md. For package authors only (SDK 57+): optional peer dependency, config declaration merging, Observe.registerIntegration(), and event naming.

Quick links to the docs

• Get started: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/get-started/
• Dashboard guide: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/dashboard/
• Querying with EAS CLI: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/eas-cli/
• Metrics reference: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/reference/metrics/
• Expo Router integration: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/integrations/expo-router/
• React Navigation integration: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/integrations/react-navigation/
• User-defined events: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/events/
• Configuration: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/configuration/
• Third-party integrations: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/integrations/third-party/
• EAS Update download performance: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/eas-update/
• Troubleshooting: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/observe/reference/troubleshooting/

Known gaps between the docs and the shipped code

Verified against eas-cli 21.8.0 and expo-observe 57.0.9. Trust this skill's references over the docs on these points, but re-check with --help and the installed package before relying on them:

• All six CLI commands are on the Querying with EAS CLI page. Older doc builds list only four and omit observe:routes and observe:session.
• Navigation metric aliases are nav_cold_ttr, nav_warm_ttr, and nav_tti. There are no bare cold_ttr / warm_ttr aliases in the CLI.
• Sorting uses --sort <slowest|fastest|newest|oldest>. There is no --order flag.
• ObserveErrorBoundary, Observe.reportError, and configure({ errorHandlingEnabled }) are exported but undocumented. Observe still has no crash reporting; use Sentry or BugSnag for that.

Submitting Feedback

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